Artist Quotes - Page 6

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.